Debian Buster apt mirror

[bench_up]

Google maintains mirrors of the Debian apt repos at:

https://packages.cloud.google.com/mirror/cloud-apt

I have these entries in my sources:

deb https://packages.cloud.google.com/mirror/cloud-apt/buster buster main
deb https://packages.cloud.google.com/mirror/cloud-apt/buster-security buster-security main
deb https://packages.cloud.google.com/mirror/cloud-apt/buster-updates buster-updates main
deb https://packages.cloud.google.com/mirror/cloud-apt/buster-backports buster-backports main

The first one "buster" works fine.

The other three "buster-security", "buster-updates" and "buster-backports" all return 404 not found.

The instance in question does not have http/https egress to the rest of the internet so I can't use the Debian repos.

Can anyone explain where the other repos have gone, or have some better advice as to the correct entries for sources.list?

[lawrencenelson]

Hi @bench_up,

Welcome to the Google Cloud Community!

As a workaround, you may try creating a repository in Artifact Registry, add the package to the repository, then install it into the VM. 

First, you need to enable Private Google access - Configure Private Google Access.

Then, you may follow the steps provided in this documentations:

• Store Apt packages in Artifact Registry.
• Manage Debian packages

I hope this helps. Thank you.

[bench_up]

HI @lawrencenelson 

Thank you for your response.  Of course your solution is OK for one package but in order to solve the problem, I'd have to mirror the entire of 3 Debian repos.

Can you confirm if there is a problem that can be fixed or will these 3 repo URLs 404 forever intentionally?

https://packages.cloud.google.com/mirror/cloud-apt/buster-security
https://packages.cloud.google.com/mirror/cloud-apt/buster-updates
https://packages.cloud.google.com/mirror/cloud-apt/buster-backports

Thanks.